PTPA Power Struggle Spurs Suit Accusing Ex-GC Of 'Coup'

By Celeste Bott

An internal leadership battle within a professional tennis player advocacy group escalated Monday, when the Professional Tennis Players Association claimed in Illinois federal court that its ex-general counsel staged a "coup" by recruiting a rogue executive committee to seize control of the organization and its antitrust suit against tennis's governing bodies.

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Ill. Judge Approves $37M More In PVC Price-Fix Deals

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge gave her early approval Tuesday to more than $37 million in settlements two classes struck with a company defending against accusations that it participated in an illegal price-fixing scheme with other major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers.

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DC Circ. Nixes Part Of IAM Fund's $13M Liability Win

By Kellie Mejdrich

The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday partially unraveled an early win for a multiemployer pension fund in a dispute over $13 million in withdrawal liability against several Illinois truck dealership companies, holding the lower court needed to recalculate some of the interest and damages assessed.

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States Sue Again Over New Limits On Homeless Housing Aid

By Julie Manganis

A coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia took the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development back to court on Tuesday over the Trump administration's renewed effort to restrict funding for programs that provide permanent housing and support services to homeless people.

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Illinois Cases To Watch In 2026: Midyear Report

By Celeste Bott

Mead Johnson is set to go to trial this summer in the first case to make it to a jury in multidistrict litigation claiming baby formula caused a serious gut illness in premature infants, while the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is facing a possible sanctions hearing over prosecutorial misconduct allegations in two Illinois cases on attorneys' radar for the rest of the year.

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7th Circ. Rejects Internet Scammer's Phone Search Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Federal border agents did not need a warrant or probable cause before manually searching a fraudster's cellphone for evidence upon his return flight to the United States, the Seventh Circuit said Monday, keeping the evidence a part of his case.

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Judge Recommends Netting Sugar Arb. Awards To $3.9M

By Jack McLoone

A Florida federal magistrate judge recommended rolling an arbitration award and a related counterclaim award over broken sugar contracts into a single judgment, which would set the net amount awarded to an Illinois sugar company at $3.86 million.

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Veradigm Can't Shake Suit Over Patient Portal Data Tracking

By Allison Grande

An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health information to Google, finding that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the company's conduct violated federal and state wiretap laws.

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Grocers' Microcaptive Not Valid For Tax Benefit, 7th Circ. Told

By Kat Lucero

Chicagoland grocery chain owners were not entitled to microcaptive tax benefits because they failed to establish a bona fide in-house insurance arrangement, the government told the Seventh Circuit, saying the U.S. Tax Court correctly held that state law does not control the federal tax definition of insurance.

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Ohio Fuels Litigation Funding Debate As Foreign Ban Is Enacted

By Ryan Boysen

Ohio has enacted a sweeping law that bans all foreign litigation funders from doing business in the Buckeye State, drawing praise from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and outrage from the litigation finance industry.

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ABA Seeks Trump Docs In Suit Alleging Law Firm Intimidation

By Emily Sawicki

The Trump administration cannot rely on the presidential communications privilege to block disclosure of communications related to allegations that the president sought to intimidate BigLaw firms into conforming with his policy initiatives, the American Bar Association told a D.C. federal judge.

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Trump's SDNY Pick Steps In As Clayton Focuses On DC

By Pete Brush

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pick to succeed him, James McDonald, will assume a leadership role as Clayton works on his own nomination for director of national intelligence in Washington.

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Judge Says Warning 'Sufficient Deterrent,' Nixing AI Sanctions

By Emily Sawicki

A Kentucky federal judge has declined to sanction two attorneys who filed a brief that included errors generated by artificial intelligence amid a fraud case against a notary public, finding the lawyers had no history of misconduct and had shown sufficient remorse.

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Wis. Judge Avoids Prison Time In ICE Obstruction Sentence

By Nate Beck

A former Wisconsin state judge on Wednesday was fined $5,000 but will not serve prison time for obstructing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest of a defendant in her courtroom by directing him down a private hallway away from agents before he was later captured.

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Del. Judge Recuses Herself From Apollo $570M Payout Suit

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware vice chancellor presiding over litigation regarding a $570 million payout to Apollo Global Management Inc. insiders has disqualified herself from the case after a possible conflict of interest arose due to her former role as an attorney with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, which was involved in a merger with ties to the payout.

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Ga. Judge Rejects UPS Plaintiff's Bid To Force Recusal

By Madison Arnold

A Georgia federal judge reportedly disciplined for having sexual intercourse in her chambers and attending a political event has opted not to recuse herself in the case of a former UPS employee in his dismissed racial discrimination lawsuit.

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McCarter Trial Judge Has 'Serious Doubts' About NY Expert

By Brian Steele

The Hartford judge presiding over a $22.5 million lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP and a former partner said Wednesday he had "serious doubts" about allowing testimony from a defense expert, but let him proceed as long as he did not claim to interpret New York law.

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Morgan & Morgan Malpractice Fight Won't Get Another Review

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected Morgan & Morgan PA's bid to challenge a trial court ruling denying the firm's summary judgment motion in a legal malpractice case brought against it by clients seeking representation in a personal injury action.

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Day Pitney Can't Be Cut Off From New Counsel, Client Says

By Aaron Keller

A former Connecticut chief justice's ethics gaffe cannot preclude fellow lawyers at Day Pitney LLP from communicating with new counsel for John B. Clinton, a private equity management firm owner locked in a 13-year-old, $1.3 million corporate windup lawsuit, Clinton has urged a Connecticut state court judge to conclude.

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